Month: January 2019

A big thank you Evergreen Foundation and Seeds of Change for their ongoing funding of our Britannia School/community garden program. Funds were used to extend our garden programming through this past fall, primarily to youth at the Britannia School Garden. This included 25 garden classes working with approximately 100 youth as well as 2 community seed saving workshops with a total of 23 participants.

These garden classes in particular, are providing valuable extracurricular education to youth on a whole range of food growing topics such as composting, soil health, winter gardening, seed saving, and native plants and cultural uses, which are helping to build stronger connections to the land and food sources. Youth are eager to be outside and keen to learn about food growing and ecology. Funds also allowed us to increase our physical capacity allowing us to purchase more garden tools as well as wood and soil to increase the number of garden beds in our 22,000 sq ft garden area. The building of 3 new raised boxes provided several students new construction skills, an important part of maintaining and developing gardens. We were also able to create two beautiful new bee education signs for both our mason bee homes and our honey bee hives.

Our friends @solefoodfarms are in the running for a $30K prize and urgently need your support by Thursday Jan 3 at midnight to win. They provide jobs, training, and inclusion to people with limited resources and this prize will support more than 2000 hrs of employment for people living in the DTES.

We need an outpouring of support from our community so that our video on www.kindnesspaysforward.ca will receive the most votes by 11:59 pm on January 3, 2019. We’ve been neck and neck for 2.5 weeks with less than 48 hours left to go and anything could push them over the edge.

Contact

Email: gwfcnetwork@gmail.com

Tel: 604-718-5895

Honoring Coast Salish Lands and Water

We recognize that we live and work on unceded Coast Salish land and serve many Indigenous communities who live in our neighbourhood. We believe that those of us who are settlers on this land have a deep responsibility to address colonial systems of power and oppression, most importantly as they impact Indigenous people and their food systems today. It is through this understanding that we are working to develop a decolonization framework through which all our future programs will be planned and implemented.